Quotes About Generosity

I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. . . . Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. Mother Teresa

The truth is that our wellbeing is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!

Whatever you want more of, give it away.

There was a time in this country when you'd be considered a jerk if you passed by somebody in need. Now you're a fool for helping. -Mike McIntyre

He gives no best who gives most; but he gives most who gives best. ~Arthur Warwick

Sé amable de manera indiscriminada y realiza bellos actos sin sentido

God created you to be—a gift of His love to others.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." Some

When the conditions of deficiency and wounding are still not healed, we have a very hard time knowing what it feels like to give in a genuine way. Because our inner experience is still one of need, giving is usually done with a subtle expectation of getting in return.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

Real love would not take more than it gave. It would not be selfish.

Life should be good - Life should be very, very good - and the only duty we have to the dead is to make it good for ourselves and other people.

But in her seventy and more years, she had learned that the risks taken for others gave the greatest rewards.

If they could not understand the words about Jesus then we Christians should show them what He was like by the way we lived. I remembered He had said, 'If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.' So this was the beginning of what I called 'walking the extra mile'. There seemed to be a lot of Christians who did not mind walking one, not many who could be bothered to walk two, and no one who wanted to walk three. Those in need that I met seemed to need a marathon.

3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must I spend my days among them?' But have I ever said such things aloud? No. I have been nothing but generous to them, and kept these thoughts to myself. And how have they repaid me? Have they been grateful or kind? Ho NO!

GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU HAVE, AND THE BEST WILL COME BACK TO YOU. —ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, AUTHOR AND POET

This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.

Chère Marika, Le vieux Volks n'est pas là, et moi non plus, mais vous pouvez entrer quand même. Ça me réjouirait le coeur de savoir que vous êtes entrée, que vous avez bu du café ou du chocolat et mangé des biscuits, assise à ma place ou encore debout en regardant par la fenêtre. Simplement de savoir que vous êtes venue, je serais heureux. Même sans vous voir. A bientôt. Votre voisin, Jim

Pourquoi donne-t-on? Pour se relier, pour rompre la solitude et faire partie de la chaîne à nouveau, pour se brancher sur la vie, pour faire circuler les choses dans un système vivant, pour sentir qu'on fait partie de quelque chose de plus vaste et notamment de l'humanité chaque fois on fait un don à un inconnu.

and had I the names of my benefactors, I could most freely record them in letters of gold,

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.